GreenBiz

JANUARY 22, 2021

The problem with zero-waste goals is the word 'waste'. Jim Giles. Fri, 01/22/2021 - 00:15. This essay originally appeared in Food Weekly. Sign up for your free subscription. Last week, I mentioned a project in the Netherlands that puts circular thinking at the heart of plans for a more sustainable food system. Afterward, I realized that the project jumped out at me partly because this kind of thinking is so rare, at least in the private sector.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2021

The Westlake / Rampart Village neighborhood of Los Angeles welcomed the Rampart Mint Apartments, a new permanent supportive housing project that provides secure and sustainable housing for people who are experiencing homelessness.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 22, 2021

Episode 252: Duty to democracy, lower-carbon labs. Heather Clancy. Fri, 01/22/2021 - 02:15. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (5:40). Supporting democracy becomes the measure of leadership. The case for buying climate tech from BIPOC and women-owned suppliers. When was the last time you chatted with your CIO, CTO or CDO ? Features. Is this the secret formula to lower-carbon labs (18:25).

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2021

Seven years after purchasing the water tower next to their childhood home, cousins Ruud Visser and Fumi Hoshino of RV Architectuur have successfully transformed the century-old structure in Nieuw Lekkerland into a stunning home for their families.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

Energy

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2021

The world’s top market for rooftop solar is looking for new ways to add distributed PV to its electricity system by fine-tuning its interplay with the power grid. This year, utilities in the Australian states South Australia and Victoria will roll out a "flexible exports" pilot. The AUD $4.8 million (USD $3.7 million) project, which will cover 600 customers across the two states, will allow rooftop solar customers to vary their exports to the network in alignment with available grid capaci

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2021

The newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that will kickstart the process for the country to rejoin the Paris climate accord.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2021

Hydraloop is making water recycling easier for all types of buildings.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2021

NOx gases are mostly produced by the combustion of hydrocarbons in vehicles and engines, as well as industrial processes such as power generation and cement manufacture. Consequently, NOx measurements are vital to minimise emissions and demonstrate compliance in applications such as engine development, combustion control, emissions abatement, stack testing, and in the development of any products or processes that burn hydrocarbon fuels.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2021

Starting this month, residents of Washington are going to have direct say on climate matters in the state.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2021

Zephyr® air quality sensor attached to lighting infrastructure. A collaboration between air quality visualisation firm EarthSense and Leicester City Council will develop and test tools to support better communication about the implications of burning wood at specific times and places to enable better management of domestic stoves and emissions. This project will identify particulate matter (PM2.5) and (PM10) emissions caused by a range of activities including domestic wood burners, open fires, b

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Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2021

Tighter rules on the carbon footprint of new homes in England look set to trigger a fresh boom for residential solar. New homes will be expected to produce 31 percent less carbon dioxide than they do now, according to plans laid out this week , which will require better energy efficiency and being “heat pump ready.” In the vast majority of cases, it is expected that solar will be the most cost-effective way for housebuilders to stay below the carbon threshold.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 22, 2021

No matter the size, budget, or form, FNTECH translates business aspirations into high quality, memorable events. For over 20 years, they have partnered with top-tier companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Vans on in-person, virtual, and hybrid events worldwide. Known as a “one-stop shop”, FNTECH oversees the entire event supply chain from creative design to production and management.

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 22, 2021

The United States may have abandoned the Paris Agreement, an international treaty combatting climate change, but not everyone is silently standing by. More businesses and corporations are adopting progressive environmental goals, with solar investments at the top of their lists. “Now more than ever, a company’s responsibility extends beyond caring for their economic impact to… The post Corporations have taken a major stand against dirty electricity <br><span style=&

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Charged

JANUARY 22, 2021

By applying statistical geometry to analyze urban road networks, KAUST researchers have advanced their understanding of how dynamic wireless charging systems might influence driver behavior and city planning in a future dominated by EVs. The study, published in the IEEE Open Journal on Vehicular Technology , used tools from stochastic geometry to establish a framework that enables evaluating the performance of charging road deployment in metropolitan areas.

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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 22, 2021

Cornwall Insight, an energy consultancy, research, and analytics company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Emeka Chukwureh as Head of Energy Market Development to its Irish team. With responsibility for research and market development strategy in Cornwall Insight's Irish business, Emeka will play a key role in supporting its growth in Ireland.

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Charged

JANUARY 22, 2021

Governments are fond of setting numerical milestones for EV adoption, and sometimes those objectives are actually met. A few years ago, as part of the LA Green New Deal, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) set a goal of deploying 10,000 commercial EV chargers in the city by 2022. According to the latest count, there are 11,045 commercial charging stations (including public, workplace and fleet chargers) in service, so the city has far exceeding its target, almost 21 months ahea

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altenergymag

JANUARY 22, 2021

Company now delivering Energy Storage System (ESS) through authorized installers

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Charged

JANUARY 22, 2021

Professor Jeff Dahn is a star researcher in the battery field—he has co-authored 730 papers and holds some 73 patents. Professor Dahn and his research group at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia have had an exclusive research partnership with Tesla since 2016. Now Professor Dahn is stepping down from his leadership role at Tesla’s Advanced Battery Research group, and taking on the position of Chief Scientific Advisor at Novonix Battery Technology Solutions , a company that was spun out

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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Unsustainable

JANUARY 22, 2021

To address the Malawi water crisis, a collaboration between the government and key NGOs is attempting to curb the disastrous lack of access to this resource that is affecting broad swathes of the country. The post The Malawi Water Crisis: Initiatives Aim at Universal Access appeared first on Unsustainable.

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Charged

JANUARY 22, 2021

San Francisco-based charging network operator Volta Charging has raised $125 million in a Series D financing round. The new funding brings the company’s total equity financing to over $200 million. Volta will use the new capital to increase its investment in product, engineering and network infrastructure, and to begin its international expansion. Volta’s charging stations are located in over 200 municipalities in 23 states.

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GatesNotes

JANUARY 22, 2021

Congress and the new administration can help put the world on a path to zero emissions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

BBC reports Nissan has concluded Brexit deal has secured long term future for Sunderland factory. Nissan has confirmed it will continue to invest in its Sunderland plant and will move additional electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing production to the region, following months of speculation that any failure to secure an effective post-Brexit trade deal with the EU would put the future of the giant factory at risk.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 22, 2021

No matter the size, budget, or form, FNTECH translates business aspirations into high quality, memorable events. For over 20 years, they have partnered with top-tier companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Vans on in-person, virtual, and hybrid events worldwide. Known as a “one-stop shop”, FNTECH oversees the entire event supply chain from creative design to production and management.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

Climate Bonds CEO Sean Kidney and Decarb Connect founder Alex Cameron discuss the growing role for transition bonds in unlocking investment for tackling carbon-intensive sectors of the economy. With the Green Bond market delivering $1tr of investment, what opportunity could a new category of bond bring to companies trying to engineer a transition of hard to abate assets?

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Forbes Green Tech

JANUARY 22, 2021

For building owners and facilities managers, indoor air quality (IAQ) is taking center stage as they plan for safe reopening of workplaces in 2021.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 22, 2021

The Week's Agent of Impact: Amanda Gorman, poet. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Creativity appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 22, 2021

Energy and Power Quality Meters Market Scope, Trends, Future Demand 2027

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 22, 2021

On this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh breaks down creative-economy opportunities with Upstart Co-Lab’s Laura Callanan. We also listen, again, to some of. The post Impact Briefing: Week of January 22 appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

National Grid confirms its second electricity link to France is now operating at full capacity providing a further boost to decarbonisation efforts. National Grid has this morning confirmed that the second electricity interconnector linking the UK and France is now able to flow low carbon electricity between the two countries at full capacity. Wholesale power traders started buying capacity to transport power across the 149-mile subsea power cable, which stretches along the sea floor between Far

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Terra Infirma

JANUARY 22, 2021

I really enjoyed Wednesday’s Green Academy taster session – we had some great interaction with participants and really positive feedback. If you missed it, you can watch it below – if you want the full experience, download the workbook here first. If you want to sign up to all 10 Green Academy webinars (below), we’re offering the special price of £264.00 (+VAT where applicable) up until 31 Jan 2021.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 22, 2021

To reveal the current landscape and prospective role and influence of hydropower operations on the electric grid in the U.S., the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) commissioned the Hydropower Value Study (HVS): Current Status and Future Opportunities. The newly released HVS explores current hydropower operations and resulting value in examples across the country.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 22, 2021

Systems will help maximize uptime and support business continuity

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 22, 2021

In a star-studded inauguration featuring Lady Gaga and J-Lo, the 22-year old poet stole the spotlight at president Joe Biden’s inauguration. Accolades poured. The post Agent of Impact: Amanda Gorman, poet appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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